Scientific Irrationalism
Subtitle: Origins of a Postmodern Cult
Contributors: Keith Windschuttle (Foreword); David Franklin (Afterword)
Publisher: Transaction Publishers; Routledge
Published: March 29, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780765800633
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Popper, Karl Raimund,; Irrationalism (Philosophy); Science; Philosophy; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Sir,
Description: "Since its inception in the 1940s, the field of science studies, originally intended to bridge the gap between science and the humanities, has been the center of controversy and debate. The most notable figures in this debate are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. In Scientific Irrationalism: Origins of a Postmodern Cult, David Stove demonstrates how extravagant has been the verbiage wasted on this issue and how irrational the combatants have been. He shows that Kuhn and Popper share considerable common ground.

Stove argues that the problems all reside in the reasoning of the critics. He identifies the logical mistakes by and conceptual allusions made by Kuhn and Popper and their supporters, as well as their collective dependency on a single argument made by the philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume. He then demonstrates how little potency that argument actually has for the claims of science."--BOOK JACKET.